Aneeta Rajendran

(Un)Familiar Femininities

Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the queer female subject is an (un)familiar, hidden in plain sight. How does one theorize subjects who are not 'gay' or 'lesbian' in the conventional sense of occupying stable, visible identities? (Un)Familiar Femininities, through its exciting readings of various Indian texts, looks at how the figure of the lesbian as (un)familiar, simultaneously strange and mundane, allows the imagining of scripts for femininity that do not all march towards unquestioning acceptance of heterosexuality as normative, natural, final.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199454914
• ISBN-10: 0199454914
• Artikelnr.: 47867580

Autorenporträt

Aneeta Rajendran teaches at the Department of English, Gargi College, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
An Introduction
1. Gender Insubordination: (Un)Familiar Butch Desire
2. Lesbians in the House! Cinema and Queer Female Desire
3. The (Un)Familiar in the Heart of the Family:Portraits of the Lesbian as a Married Woman
4. Unbecoming Women: Shaping (Un)Familiar Lives
Conclusions: Mainstreaming (Un)Familiarities
Index
About the Author